RJV Construction

RJV Construction Corporation is a family-owned underground utility contractor based in the Greater Boston area, now run by the third and fourth generation of the Pacella family. The company traces its roots to 1921, when the Pacella family began water and sewer work around Boston, and states that RJV itself was formally established in 1982; it holds MassDOT prequalification and DCAMM certification, and its leadership has held board positions with the Utility Contractors Association of New England. The clearest track record here is municipal infrastructure work. Local news outlets have reported RJV as the contractor on active, town-run sewer projects, including sewer main and pump-station work in Barnstable (2024) and Dennis (2025) on Cape Cod, and roadway sewer main installation reported in 2026. Trade press has separately covered the company's adoption of digital estimating, field-tracking, and equipment-maintenance software, describing reduced equipment downtime and more efficient bidding -- evidence of an operationally modern shop, though these are vendor case studies rather than customer accounts. Two things are worth asking about before hiring RJV for anything requiring a licensed contractor. BuildZoom lists the company's Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (#188710) as expired since August 2021, and notes the state at one point showed it as cancelled. Separately, public OSHA enforcement records show 4 inspections since 2010 resulting in 6 violations and $8,175 in penalties. Neither is disqualifying on its own, but both are worth confirming directly given the company otherwise presents as an established, prequalified municipal contractor. There is no customer review text on file for RJV on any platform -- BuildZoom shows none, and Google shows only an aggregate 3.8 stars from 12 ratings with no visible review content -- so there isn't yet a documented homeowner experience to draw on; what's here is almost entirely municipal project reporting and B2B/vendor coverage. RJV is best understood, on this record, as an established heavy-civil and underground-utility contractor with real municipal project history -- worth a direct conversation about current license status and project scope before signing on for residential or smaller commercial work.